Cloud Database Engineer II

Red Hat • Seattle, WA

32d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is a hybrid role requiring employees to work from our headquarters location in Seattle, WA every Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote all other days. Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. We’ve got all the perks, but if what you value most is doing great work in a collaborative environment, join us. The Production Engineering team at Redfin is currently seeking a Cloud Database Engineer II. This is an integral contributor who is responsible for the foundation that powers Redfin's data and cloud infrastructure (network, storage, database, compute). The Cloud Database Engineer II will help support databases across our cloud environment. They’ll ensure system performance, smooth operation, and best practices are being followed. They’ll also collaborate with engineers on both platform and feature teams to ensure our systems are operating well within the larger Redfin environment. This role requires depth in design, collaboration with internal teams, a proactive approach to problem solving, and an ability to optimize and tune our databases for maximum efficiency. Who You Are: You have expertise and development skills in building, scaling, and supporting database technologies (Postgres, Aurora RDS, event streaming, caching). You have worked with cloud databases including provisioning, automation, scaling/performance, and replication. You understand the what/why/how of infrastructure protocols and architecture. You have experience with database performance tuning, troubleshooting databases, and performance issues. You love to build tooling for common DBA processes and to automate!

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in cloud / AWS environments
• 3+ years managing a cloud database instances (i.e. RDS, Aurora, or on EC2)
• 3+ years of PostgreSQL (or similar) database engineering and administration.
• Shell scripting and Python script development.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure as code tools
• Experience in an Agile environment and production infrastructure on call.
• Experience using AI code generation tools tools such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.
• Experience with Linux administration and Linux scripting.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Database - Specialty
• Software or Systems Development experience.
• Expertise in RDS (Postgres) databases and Non-Relational databases such as (Redis, Snowflake).

Responsibilities

• You will support database architecture projects with a focus on reliability, throughput, scalability, and security.
• You will build observability to proactively detect and prevent performance issues.
• You will perform DBA duties in non-production and production environments, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, and migration.
• You will use infrastructure as code and configuration management tools to ensure consistency.
• You will use approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code.
• You will maintain configuration of PostgreSQL instances including replication setup, parameter settings, and identification of appropriate instance types/sizes.
• You will use approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code
• You will participate in high availability and disaster recovery planning/drills.
• You will use your systems knowledge to help scaling and performance for every service at Redfin.
• You will participate in an on-call rotation about one week per month.

Benefits

• We offer a generous benefits package including flexible vacation that supports the importance of time away from work for rest and relaxation, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick leave (accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked), medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits, flexible spending account, health savings account, life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Programs, and 401(k) employer match.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees